pic by Jeremy Deputat
stage, Deastro’s colourful, ambient, avantguarde pop symphonies come to life with his emotions and endless energy. You may recognise his song ‘Parallelograms’ from bnet radio, and the more recent ‘Vermillion Plaza’ and ‘Toxic Crusaders’ are both criminally catchy. Those sonic booms on his recordings are actually fireworks. “Of course everyone’s hanging out, and I’m nerding out with headphones and a field recorder on the fourth of July,” Chabot said of it in an interview.
Deastro’s dreamy pop sounds like an interstellar collision, like Bright Eyes meets The Radio Dept., The Postal Service or Phoenix. It’s mostly constructed with synth but it sounds like there are conventional instruments in there at times. Switching between bouncy subterranean pop, atmospheric dream folk and synthetic dance shoegaze, Deastro’s sound is vast, daring and really pretty.
Out of all the new band’s I’ve heard this year, I think Cymbals Eat Guitars have the best shot of making it big. Charles Bissell from the Wrens, who knows a thing or two about this kind of thing, agrees. He recently said of the New York band that they “will end up indie famous within the year” and he liked the band enough to produce their first album, Why There Are Mountains which should be enough for any self-respecting indie-lover to give it a listen.
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Shots of North Carolina’s folk-rocking Avett Brothers’ stop in Glasgow - 22.08.11
Read the review of the gig here.
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Good time with Bad Guys. Photos from the May 29th gig at the Old Blue Last. Read the review by the Bad Guy himself, Stuart London after the jump.
Artrocker.com exclusive: for fans of White Lies and Crocodiles we’ve got some fresh pictures from their UK show at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire earlier this month, courtesy of Alessandro...
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